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This is a normal post I know their stations are incredible,
but what are the trains like?

I think my favourite fact about the Moscow metro is that their circle line is actually a circle. Just because they decided it should be.
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This is a normal post Trains are typical Russian
clean and functional, what amazed me too was the dogs that travel alone and know what stops to get off

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPi7tIm9tj4
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This is a normal post Come to south east London
We've got pigeons that do that.
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This is a normal post one of either London Bridge or Paddington
(I don't remember which) has an open-plan food court on the concourse. Bad idea.
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This is a normal post I don't want to come over like some massive train geek
because I'm really not (I just happen to have read a book about the Tube recently), but the Circle Line on Moscow Metro is quite interesting. Engineers who'd worked on the London Underground told them to avoid a Circle, as it was a total pain and there were too many junctions with other lines. Khruschev, who'd had been put in charge of the project by Stalin, decided fuck it, we'll have a Circle Line anyway. Since they were building from scratch rather than melding lots of different lines togehter as happened in London, it actually turned out to be quite easy to build, and just demonstrated how much of a mess the London system is.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Or the prospect of being sent to a work gulag, fed feet first into a furness or just worked to death.
Really makes you concentrate on what you're doing in Stalinist russia.

Another great Stalins project was the road of bones built by political prisoners.
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This is a normal post or demolishing this
what was rebuilt and reopened in 2000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq7ZX54fZA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:43, Reply)
This is a normal post has the narrator got a cold?

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This is a normal post Which Tube book? I've read (and recommended) three on here recently.
(You massive train geek)
[edit] Reading your post makes me think it was Andrew Martin's "Overground, Underground".
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Andrew Martin
yes. It wasn't brilliant - quite bitty in a lot of places - but still plenty of nice little facts and stories.

Also, it send me on a spending spree for vintage Tube posters. Currently have this in my kitchen: www.amazon.co.uk/Brightest-London-Reached-Underground-Poster/dp/B0049A9EK4/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1342011258&sr=1-2

EDIT: And which other Underground books are any good, then (you massive train geek)?
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)
This is a normal post I'll ignore that, Mr Buys-Gay-Posters.
Christian Wolmar's "Subterranean Railway".
And I can't remember the one before Andrew Martin's....ask me again, I'll look on my kindle.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:43, Reply)